<\/span><\/h2>\nSummary<\/strong><\/p>\nINDIA is a great country and according to some studies, India has been facing some social issues for<\/span> many years.<\/p>\nFrom a very old time, many social issues have been happening in INDIA. INDIA has been a very natural and multi-color society from the old times and is very complex in terms of its rituals, regions, languages, religions, festivals etc.<\/span><\/p>\nINDIA has experienced and witnessed many types of social issues from a long period of history.<\/span><\/p>\nIndia has got many experiences from a long period of history and India has received and witnessed several waves of immigrants such as Aryans, Mughals etc.<\/span><\/ins><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.1.1″]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.1.1″]<\/span><\/p>\n1) OVERPOPULATION:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe population of India is an estimated\u00a01.27<\/strong> billion Though India ranks second in population; it ranks\u00a033\u00a0in population density.\u00a0Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of\u00a0India, had implemented a\u00a0forced sterilisation\u00a0program in the early 1970s but the program failed. Officially, men with two children or more were required to be sterilised, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant, poor men were also believed to have been affected by this program. This program is still remembered and regretted in India, and is blamed for creating a public aversion to\u00a0family planning, which hampered Government programs for decades.<\/p>\n2) ECONOMICS ISSUES:<\/strong><\/p>\n(A) POVERTY- Poverty has become a major problem of India. India suffers from substantial poverty. In 2012, the Indian government stated 21.9% of its population is below its official poverty limit. The World Bank, in 2011 based on 2005’s PPPs International Comparison Program, estimated 23.6% of the Indian population, or about 276 million people, lived below $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity. According to the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MGD) programme 270 million or 21.9% people out of 1.2 billion of Indians lived below the poverty line of $1.25 in 2011-2012 as compared to 41.6% in 2004-05.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nOfficial figures estimate that 27.5%\u00a0of Indians lived below the national poverty line in 2004\u20132005.\u00a0A 2007 report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS) found that 25% of Indians, or 236 million people, lived on less than 20 rupees per day\u00a0with most working in “informal\u00a0labour\u00a0sector with no job or social security, living in abject poverty.<\/p>\n
(B) CORRUPTION- Corruption in\u00a0<\/strong>India<\/strong> is a major issue that adversely affects its economy. A study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 found that more than 62% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully. In its study conducted in 2008, Transparency International reports about 40% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or using a contract to get a job done in public office.<\/span><\/p>\nIn 2015, India was ranked 85th out of 175 countries in Transparency International’s\u00a0Corruption Perceptions Index, compared to its neighbours Bhutan (30th), Bangladesh (145th), Myanmar (156th), China (100th), Nepal (126th), Pakistan (126th) and Sri Lanka (85th). This is the second least corruption rank for India in the whole of South Asia.\u00a0In 2013, India was ranked 94th out of 175 countries.<\/p>\n
Most of the largest sources of corruption in India are entitlement programmes and social spending schemes enacted by the Indian government. Examples include\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act\u00a0and\u00a0National Rural Health Mission. Other daily sources of corruption include India’s trucking industry which is forced to pay billions in bribes annually to numerous regulatory and police stops on its interstate highways.<\/p>\n
(3) EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\nINITIATIVES- Since the Indian Constitution was completed in 1949, education has remained one of the priorities of the Indian government. The first education minister\u00a0Maulana Azad\u00a0founded a system of education which aimed to provide free education at the primary level. Primary education was made free and compulsory for children from 6-14, and child labour was banned. The government introduced incentives to education and disincentives for not receiving education\u00a0\u2013 for instance, the provision of mid-day meals in schools were introduced.<\/p>\n
Many similar initiatives echoed, and the largest of such initiatives is\u00a0Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which actively promoted \u201cEducation for All\u201d. In line with this, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) aimed to increase their expenditure on education to 6% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from values fluctuating about 3% through their National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) in 2004.\u00a0The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act\u00a0was also imposed in 2009. Despite these initiatives, education continues to persist as an impediment to development.<\/p>\n
ISSUES-<\/strong> While many schools were built, they had poor infrastructure and inadequate facilities. Schools in the rural areas were especially affected. According to the District Information System for Education (DISE) in India in 2009, only about 51.5% of all schools in India have boundary walls, 16.65% have computers and 39% have electricity. Of which, only 6.47% of primary schools and 33.4% of upper primary schools have computers, and only 27.7% of primary schools have electricity. Learning in poorly furnished schools was not conducive, resulting in poor quality education.<\/p>\nFurthermore, the absence rates of teachers and students were high, while their detainment rates were low. The incentives for going to school were not apparent, while punishment for absence was not enforced. Despite the government\u2019s decree on compulsory education and the child labour ban, many children were still missing classes to go to work. The government did not interfere even when children missed school.<\/p>\n
Economic and social disparities also plague the fundamentals of the education system. Rural children are less able to receive education because of greater opportunity costs, since rural children have to work to contribute to the family\u2019s income. According to the Annual Status of Education in 2009, the average attendance rate of students in the rural states is about 75%. Though this rate varies significantly, states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar had more than 40% absentees during a random visit to their schools. In the urban states, more than 90% of the students were present in their schools during a visit.<\/p>\n
OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUTH-<\/strong> Take India, one of the youngest countries in the world, where youth accounted for 20% of the total population in 2011, according to the Registrar General of India. However, youth unemployment remains high in India.<\/p>\n4) VIOLENCE:<\/p>\n
(A) RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE- <\/b>Constitutionally\u00a0India is a\u00a0secular state,\u00a0but large-scale violence have periodically occurred in India since independence. In recent decades, communal tensions and religion-based politics have become more prominent.<\/p>\n
In the<\/span> 1990s, violent attacks on Christians in India were reported. The acts of violence include arson of churches, forced conversion of Christians to Hinduism, distribution of threatening literature, raping of nuns, and murder of Christian priests and destruction of Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries. The Sangh Parivar and related organisations have stated that the violence is an expression of “spontaneous anger” of “vanvasis” against “forcible conversion” activities undertaken by missionaries, a claim described as “absurd” and rejected by scholars.<\/p>\nBetween 1964 and 1996, thirty-eight incidents of violence against Christians were reported.\u00a0In 1997, twenty-four such incidents were reported.\u00a0In 2007 and 2008 there was a further flare up of tensions in\u00a0Odessa, the first following the Christians’ putting up a Pan dhal in land traditionally used by Hindus and the second after the unprovoked murder of a Hindu Guru and four of his disciples while observing Janmashtami puja. This was followed by an attack on a 150-year-old church in Madhya Pradesh, and more attacks in Karnataka.<\/p>\n
(B) TERRORISM-<\/strong> The regions with long term terrorist activities today are\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir,\u00a0Central India\u00a0(Naxalism) and\u00a0Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). In the past, the\u00a0Punjab insurgency\u00a0led to militant activities in the Indian state of Punjab\u00a0as well as the national capital\u00a0Delhi\u00a0(Delhi serial blasts,\u00a0anti-Sikh riots). As of 2006, at least 232 of the country\u2019s 608 districts were afflicted, at differing intensities, by various insurgent and terrorist movements.<\/p>\nTerrorism in India has often been alleged to be sponsored by Pakistan. After most acts of terrorism in India, many journalists and politicians accuse Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the\u00a0Inter-Services Intelligence\u00a0of playing a role.<\/p>\n
(C) MAOIST INSURGENCY-<\/strong> Maoist is an informal name given to\u00a0communist\u00a0groups that were born out of the\u00a0Sino-Soviet split\u00a0in the\u00a0Indian\u00a0communist movement. Ideologically they belong to various trends of Maoism. Initially the movement had its centre in\u00a0West Bengal. In recent years, they have spread into less developed areas of rural central and eastern India, such as\u00a0Chhattisgarh\u00a0and Andhra Pradesh\u00a0through the activities of underground groups like the\u00a0Communist Party of India (Maoist).\u00a0The CPI (Maoist) and some other Naxal factions are considered\u00a0terrorists by the\u00a0Government of India\u00a0and various state governments in India.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.1.1″]<\/p>\n
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